Deadly New Bird Flu Virus in China Possibly Linked to Dead Pigs

Jane Lin
The Epoch Times
April 4, 2013

A new and deadly strain of bird flu is threatening two eastern Chinese provinces, with health authorities and virologists suspecting that a virus mutation is the link between the dead pigs that floated past Shanghai, dead migratory birds in north China, and the deaths of three people.

Two new cases of H7N9 bird flu, one of them fatal, have been reported in east China’s Zhejiang Province, [...]

Facebook Drops Face Recognition in Europe Amid Privacy Concerns

Christian Watjen
The Epoch Times
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Under fire from regulators, Facebook agreed to switch off its face recognition feature for its users in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner announced in a press release Friday.

“This feature has already been turned off for new users in the EU and templates for existing users will be deleted by 15 October,” Commissioner Billy Hawkes said in the release.

Face recognition allows Facebook [...]

The Shocking Face Of China’s Brutal One Child Policy

Can’t happen here? Top academics and eugenicists are calling for what Obama’s science czar once advocated

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, March 29, 2012

This is the shocking face of China’s brutal one child policy which many academics and pressure groups are now calling to be imposed in the west – the image shows a 9 month old baby lying dead in a bucket, forcibly aborted by Chinese family planning authorities in the [...]

Rumours of power struggle in China, as the current generation of leaders is passing power to the new… Some may end up on house arrest, sent to a labor camp, or sent to administer some small town in Tibet or near Mongolia. Probably no executions this time around, though.

The Epoch Times has a section: ”Chinese Regime In Crisis” with several articles:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/t/chinese-regime-in-crisis

One such article:
The Ouster of Bo Xilai Is Only the Beginning
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/the-ouster-of-bo-xilai-is-only-the-beginning-208344.html

Other News

Chinese Coup Rumors Run Wild Online, Then Disappear
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/chinese-coup-rumors-run-wild-online-then-disappear-adam-minter.html

CNN: Why Chinese Succession Matters
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/14/why-chinese-succession-matters/

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Power Struggle In China

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Rumours of power struggle in China, as the current generation of leaders is passing power to the new… Some may end up on house arrest, sent to a labor camp, or sent to administer some small town in Tibet or near Mongolia. Probably no executions this time around, though.

The Epoch Times has a section: ”Chinese Regime In Crisis” with several articles:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/t/chinese-regime-in-crisis

One such article:

The Ouster of Bo Xilai [...]

Professor Larry Lang: ‘Every province in China is Greece’

by Athens News

A file photo of Taiwan-born finance professor Larry Lang Hsien-ping (Reuters)

Chinese academics hardly ever make any negative references when they speak publicly about the state of the Chinese economy.

In this context, the recent public lecture of Professor Larry Lang, who reportedly said that the country’s GDP is going in reverse, is remarkable.

 

According to the Epoch Times, Lang, who holds the chair of finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said [...]

Chinese Spying Devices Installed on Hong Kong Cars

The listening device as photographed and documented by Apple Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper. (Explanatory slide by The Epoch Times)

For years now Chinese authorities have been installing spying devices on all dual-plate Chinese-Hong Kong vehicles, enabling a vast network of eavesdropping across the archipelago, according to a Hong Kong newspaper.

The report in Apple Daily states that the recording devices began being [...]

Speaking of China and of bubbles….. You think the Philly FED sees problems? Try this…

China has constructed 65 Million VACANT HOUSES over the past few years!!!! As someone said, “Now that’s a bubble!”

CHINA HAS BEEN COVERTLY FUNDING A HOUSING BUBBLE FIVE TIMES LARGER THAN THAT OF THE US: 65 MILLION VACANT HOMES UNCOVERED

“Yet this data pales in comparison with disclosure from a recent article in South China Morning Post, in which an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences noted estimates from electricity [...]